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Hugh Pat Floyd (1910-1988) was an English boxer who competed for England.
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Hugh Pat Floyd (1910-1988) was an English boxer who competed for England.
Floyd won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.
Floyd was the Amateur Boxing Association four times heavyweight champion in 1929, 1934, 1935 and 1946. [2] He defeated James Howell of the United States in the New York Golden Gloves tournament during 1935. On 8 December 1935 in the Oslo Colosseum; he fought Erling Nilsen in England's first match against Norway. He represented England in the 1934 European Championships in Budapest. [3] [4]
He was a printer by trade and lived at 45 Kerby Street, Battersea in 1935.
Lennox Claudius Lewis is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remains the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed championship. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship, Lewis represented Canada as an amateur at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics; in the latter event he won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after defeating Riddick Bowe in the final.
Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Thomas Peter Rademacher was an American heavyweight boxer. A gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics, he became the only person to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional bout when he faced Floyd Patterson in Seattle on August 22, 1957.
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Sir Henry Cooper was a British heavyweight boxer, best remembered for a 1963 fight with a young Muhammad Ali, which Cooper, who at times looked on the verge of winning, lost when the fight was called off due to a cut. Cooper was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years, and held the European heavyweight title for three years. In 1966 he fought Ali, by then world heavyweight champion, a second time and was again stopped due to a cut. Cooper twice was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and after retiring in 1971 following a controversial loss remained a popular public figure. He is the only boxer to have been awarded a knighthood.
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England Boxing, known until 2013 as the Amateur Boxing Association of England, is the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in Northern Ireland being organised on an All-Ireland basis. The Association was founded in 1880.
Francis George Parks was a British amateur heavyweight boxer. He joined the Polytechnic Boxing Club in 1892, and won the Studd Trophy in 1902. He also won a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Peter Boddington was the Amateur Boxing Association 1967 heavyweight champion and subsequently a professional boxer. Boddington was member of his local boxing club, Rootes ABC. He went to Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Whitley, Coventry.
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The Polytechnic Boxing Club for amateur boxing was formed in 1888 and located at 309 Regent Street in London. The name "Polytechnic" comes from the Royal Polytechnic Institute having been formerly at that address which would later become the home of the University of Westminster.
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William John Dees was a boxer from England. He won the Amateur Boxing Association of England's middleweight championship in 1897, and was the heavyweight champion in 1900. He represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in London in 1908. In October 1940, during the Blitz, Dees was killed by bombs in his home in Deptford, south London, aged 66.
The England Boxing National Amateur Championships Middleweight Championship formerly known as the ABA Championships is the primary English amateur boxing championship. It had previously been contested by all the nations of the United Kingdom.
Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Gains was a Black Canadian heavyweight boxer who was champion of Canada and the British Empire. One of the top heavyweights of his era, he was denied the opportunity to become World Champion due to the bar on black boxers competing for the title.
Jimmy Magill was an amateur boxer and Royal Ulster Constabulary officer from Carncastle, near Larne in Northern Ireland.
The England Boxing National Amateur Championships Flyweight Championship formerly known as the ABA Championships is the primary English amateur boxing championship. It had previously been contested by all the nations of the United Kingdom.
The England Boxing National Amateur Championships Featherweight Championship formerly known as the ABA Championships is the primary English amateur boxing championship. It had previously been contested by all the nations of the United Kingdom.
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